Actress Dame Diana Rigg, Bond girl and star of Avengers and Game Of Thrones, has died at the age of 82. She died of cancer, which had been diagnosed in March. A statement from her agent, Simon Beresford, said: “It is with tremendous sadness that we announce that Dame Diana Rigg died peacefully early this
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You get two big screen inside the Surface Duo. Todd Haselton | CNBC Microsoft and Samsung are betting that future phones look different than they do now. Samsung’s betting on foldable screens inside phones that can open up to work like a tablet. Microsoft’s testing the waters with the Surface Duo, which looks like a
Ewan McGregor is a man used to zipping up his leathers and hitting the road on his motorbike, but he admits there’s still a certain scepticism around the electric kind. The Star Wars actor told the Sky News Backstage podcast: “There’s sort of stigma in the bike world… You hear the word hairdryer used… “But
6:45 AM ET Fantasy football drafts signal the annual rite of fall. The NFL season is nearly upon us, and it’s time to shake the pandemic blues, bust out your tablets, do your research and plunge head-on into fantasy football on ESPN.com. Matthew Berry’s Week 1 Love/Hate column is here, with players he loves and
Asteroid 2020 QL2 that could be up to 120 meters (394 feet) in diameter is expected to safely fly past Earth on September 14, as per NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The asteroid is expected to fly past at a speed of nearly 38,620 kmph (24,000 mph) and come within a distance of
There has been a 43% increase in the weekly number of coronavirus cases in England, according to new figures. In the seven days to 2 September, a total of 9,864 people tested positive for COVID-19. This is the highest weekly number since the government’s Test and Trace system was launched at the end of May.
Sally Potter’s new film The Roads Not Taken is a study of dementia, dedicated to her own brother, Nic, who had Pick’s Disease, a rare type of age-related dementia. In the movie the lead character, played by Javier Bardem, is seen going about a normal day in New York city – attending appointments with his
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is reportedly able to speak again as he continues to make progress in his recovery from his novichok poisoning. The fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin is being treated at a Berlin hospital after falling ill last month during an internal flight in Russia. His police protection has also been
More than 7,500 people have now complained to Ofcom following a dance inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement performed on Britain’s Got Talent. Following the routine by previous winners Diversity on Saturday night, hundreds of people complained to the media watchdog in the hours that followed. As the story made headlines this week, the
Apple has developed masks that the company is beginning to distribute to corporate and retail employees to limit the spread of COVID-19. The Apple Face Mask is the first created in-house by the Cupertino, California-technology giant for its staff. The other, called ClearMask, was sourced elsewhere. Apple previously made a different face shield for medical workers
Morrisons has reported a £155m hit to profits from costs related to the coronavirus crisis. The UK’s fourth-largest supermarket chain said, like rivals, it had seen a surge in sales during the first half of its financial year in the run-up to, and during, the COVID-19 lockdown that began in March that saw all non-essential
Lucid has finally fully unveiled the production version of its first car: the Lucid Air, a luxury electric sedan. For those of you who have been following our coverage pver the past few months, there won’t be many surprises since Lucid has gradually leaked the most important information, but it’s still worth diving a little
One of the most consistent dividend payers in the history of the energy trade could be in danger of having to slash its payout, according to the options market. The energy space as a whole has suffered greatly at the hands of the global coronavirus pandemic. Demand for oil has fallen off a cliff, sending
Leaked documents reportedly show the government plans to carry out up to 10 million coronavirus tests a day by early next year, but critics have branded the proposals “waste on a cosmic scale”. The mass testing programme would cost £100bn – almost as much as the government spends on the NHS each year (£130bn) –
A 10-day biker rally in South Dakota was responsible for more than 260,000 cases of coronavirus costing $12.2 billion in treatment, according to a study by San Diego State University. That represents almost one in five of the 1.4 million new cases of COVID-19 in the US between 2 August and 2 September. The Sturgis
10:27 AM ET Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for … wait, what? You can’t hear me? Oh, dang it … sorry … I had myself on mute. Anyway, I appreciate you all showing up for this Zoom call. I know my invitation was a little last-minute, but I felt it was important that, before this